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1. Roadkill Remover

To keep the highways safe, states hire people to get all sorts of animals hit and killed by motorists off the road. But more often than not, wheels of other vehicles and the scorching heat of the sun get to the roadkill first, leaving rotting and maggoty flesh splattered all over for roadkill removers to collect.2. Odor TesterBefore deodorants and anti-perspirants are released into the market, manufacturers employ people who test if these products actually work. Translation: these people smell other people’s armpits for a living.

3. Garbage collectorNot much needs to be said about this job. Just look down your garbage bin, and you know what these people deal with on a daily basis.

4. Manure InspectorYou think being a scientist is a glamorous job? Then you probably didn’t know about scientists who are dedicated to eliminating deadly contaminants such as E.coli and salmonella. To figure out a way to do so, these scientists will have to go to the source—animal crap—and wade knee-deep in it, all in the interest of science

This mummified corpse of a frog was found in a hollow flint 'geode' which was cracked open in 1899 by workmen in a quarry in England. There have been many reports of frogs found inside rocks; some still living in a kind of stupor but which revived once exposed to the air.

In 1910 a living toad was found when a piece of coal was broken open; another was found in 1906 six feet underground in a solid layer of clay. The most commonly found seem to be stuck in limestone.

The theory is that a small tadpole somehow enters a crack in a forming nodule or pocket and gets trapped in there as it grows. As it does, the smell attracts tiny insects which feed the toad and keep it alive. Through this crack also comes water and air. This is fine for some of the many examples that have been found but makes no sense in cases where live frogs have been found in totally sealed or deeply buried pockets.

Some frogs have been found with the impression of their bodies so tightly jammed against the rock 'pocket' that even the skin's crackles can be seen imprinted on the sides of their frog-shaped hole --meaning the rock formed around them somehow.

his photo taken on December 24, 2007 shows a penguin baby hatching in a park in Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. The first penguin baby of the park was born there on Sunday afternoon.

The first bullet train designed and manufactured in China with a speed of 300 kilometers per hour rolled off production line on Dec. 21

A worker adjusts the seats in the carriage of the first Chinese designed and manufactured high-speed train CRH2-300 at CSR Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co. Ltd. in Qingdao of east China's Shandong Province. The train which rolled off the production line Saturday is the latest model in the country's China Railway High-speed (CRH) Series and China's first locomotive capable of traveling at 300 kilometers per hour.Photo taken on Dec. 22, 2007 shows the locomotive of the first Chinese designed and manufactured high-speed train CRH2-300 at CSR Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co. Ltd. in Qingdao of east China's Shandong Province. The train which rolled off the production line Saturday is the latest model in the country's China Railway High-speed (CRH) Series and China's first locomotive capable of traveling at 300 kilometers per hour

The first bullet train designed and manufactured in China with a speed of 300 kilometers per hour rolled off the production line on Saturday morning.

The train was the latest model in the country's China Railway High-speed (CRH) Series.

"This marks that China has joined an elite world club after Japan, France and Germany to become the fourth country capable of turning out such high speed trains," said Wang Yongping, Ministry of Railways spokesman.

Previously, China's fastest self-developed trains ran at a service speed of up to 250 km per hour. Those trains, which debuted on April 18, serve the Beijing-Harbin, Beijing-Shanghai and Beijing-Guangzhou routes.

The new train, by comparison, excelled in its air tightness, driving force and smoothness of traveling, according to Wang.

The streamlined train was made of aluminum alloy, weighing about seven tons.

"The train body was the lightest of its kind in the world," said Ma Yunshuang, vice director with the technical center of China Southern Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry (Group) Corporation. "Such a design was for the sake of energy economization."

He noted the train's per capita power was 12.7 kilowatts, lower than other high-speed trains, which was normally about 15 kilowatts.

Sifang Locomotive, a subsidiary of China Southern Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry (Group) Corporation, planned to deliver 10 such trains to the Ministry of Railways in the first half of next year, said Jiang Jing, CEO of the company.

The trains with eight carriages could seat about 600 passengers. They were expected to run on the 115-km Beijing-Tianjin route starting from August before the Beijing Olympic Games. It would reduce the journey time from the current 80 minutes to around 30 minutes.

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Thousands of LA’s boredest turned out last Friday and Saturday to be a part of LA Ink star Kat Von D’s world record attempt. Gunning her way into the Guinness Book, the tattoo maven marked indelibly THE LOGO OF HER REALITY SHOW onto 400 human beings, presumably all of whom look forward to the day they will be able to tell their grandkids how much they loved TV.

Perfectly timed for pantomime season, a team of scientists has come up with instructions for how to make a flying carpet.

The magical device may owe more to Walt Disney than to The Arabian Nights , but it is not pure fantasy, according to Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his co-workers.The researchers have studied the aerodynamics of a flexible, rippling sheet moving through a fluid, and find that it should be possible to make one that will stay aloft in air.

No such carpet is going to ferry people around, though.

The researchers say that to stay afloat in air, a sheet measuring about 10 centimetres long and 0.1 millimetres thick would need to vibrate at about 10 hertz with an amplitude of about 0.25 millimetres.

Making a heavier carpet "fly" is not forbidden by the laws of physics.

But the researchers say that their "computations and scaling laws suggest it will remain in the magical, mystical and virtual realm", as the engine driving the necessary vibrations would need to be so powerful.

The key to a magic carpet is to create uplift by making ripples that push against fluids such as air or water.

If it is close to a horizontal surface, like a piece of foil settling down onto the floor, such rippling movements create a high pressure in the gap between the sheet and the floor.

"As waves propagate along a flexible foil, they generate a fluid flow that leads to a pressure that lifts the foil, roughly balancing its weight," Mahadevan explains.

But as well as lifting it, the ripples can drive the foil forward — a trait required by any respectable magic carpet.

"If the waves propagate from one edge," says Mahadevan, "this causes the foil to tilt ever so slightly and then move in one direction towards the edge that is slightly higher. Fluid is then squeezed from this end to the other, causing the sheet to progress like a submarine ray."

To travel at speed, the carpet would have to undulate in big ripples, comparable to the size of the carpet. This would make the ride very bumpy.

"If you want a smooth ride, you can generate a lot of small ripples," says Mahadevan. "But you'll be slower."

"It's cute, it's charming," says physicist Tom Witten at the University of Chicago in Illinois, who is intrigued that the researchers thought to study such an unusual engineering feat.

This year's exposition features huge carvings inspired by France's culture and history. A traditional chalet, the Eiffel Tower and even a sculpture of Napoleon Bonaparte have been intricately etched into the snow.

A very cold Eiffel Tower is carved into the snow

This year the exposition was inspired by all things French

Soldier: Napoleon Bonaparte looks like he leapt out of the ground

The largest work is more than 100 feet high and 600 feet across and many of the winter wonderland sculptures are lit up with dazzling neon lights at night.

Some of the structures are created by piling up ice blocks, carved with chisels and chainsaws, to make huge models of buildings. Lights are frozen in the middle of them creating the beautiful displays of colour.

At night the sculptures are lit up in dazzling colours

The festival attracts tourists from around the world

Giant: This Rodin inspired sculpture dwarves this man making an identical pose

The festival was set up in 1963 and re-established in 1985 following the cultural revolution in China. It now attracts hundreds of thousands of locals and visitors from all over the world who brave the sub-zero temperatures.

It is held each year on the Sun Island in Harbin, a city in northeast China. The arctic climate provides an abundant amount of ice and snow with average winter temperatures of minus 16.8 degrees.

An archaeologist examines a bronze willow sword unearthed on Friday in Chongqing.

Archaeologists have unearthed cultural artifacts that date back to the Neolithic period, more than 4,000 years ago, in Chongqing in southwestern China.Several days ago the archeologists unearthed seven tombs that belong to the Han Dynasty, Chongqing Business News reported. On Saturday, they dug out several pieces of stone tools, including an axe, a peeling tool, shovels and adzes. They also found a delicate bronze willow sword and a lance with particular Ba cultural images. "Ba" refers to the people who lived in Chongqing and Sichuan Province in ancient China.

It is the first time that Neolithic artifacts have been found in Chongqing. They indicate that human beings had already settled in the area some 2,000 years earlier than previously believed.

An archaeologist holds a stone axe from the Neolithic period on Friday in Chongqing.

A little girl measures the dessert rolls in Budapest, Hungary, on Dec. 16, 2007. Hungarian Industrial Association of Dessert Chefs displayed a 500-meter long dessert roll in Budapest trying to set a new Guinness World Record of the longest dessert.

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